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Have them discover the Daqing oil field early in their puppet Manchukuo; enough oil there to make their military independent of foreign oil.

After hearing of Lord Cornwallis' surrender at the Siege of Yorktown, Lord North apparently persuaded George III against abdicating the throne. What if he had, however? How would a much earlier ascension to the throne of George IV have played out with the French Revolution on the horizon?

View of Manhattan on January 18, 2008, the day that Marshal of the Soviet Union Yuri Baluyevsky surrenders the Red Army's 1st American Front that was trapped on the island during the Battle of New York.

I came up with that idea in fortyseven's Earlier Discovery of the Stargate thread in the ASB forum...

Assuming the Second Sino-Japanese War doesn't break out in 1937, how would the Summer Games in Tokyo have turned out? How about the Winter Games in Sapporo? Would the Militarists have gone all out to prove the superiority of Japanese athletes to the Europeans and Americans? Would they have...

Churchill killed by New York cab in 1931 - Consequences? Realistically, what would the 1930s look like without Winston Churchill? How will Britain proceed in the face of Mussolini, Hitler and Imperial Japan? Is the British military less prepared? Does Britain fold?

Japan likely would have had to pull a large force out of China to Manchuria to go after the Vladivostok and the Maritime Province. Tokyo could have sold that as meeting the US's requirement in the newsreels while preparing their Move North. FDR would have been hard pressed to sell any hostility...

I'd think that the UK will have built up its defenses quite a bit by 1950, with jets and coastal forts. It will also depend on what sort of government is in the US and whether they've continued to support the British or whether it dried up after FDR left office. Additionally, the Empire -...

Antillia was one of the old mysterious lands on medieval charts from which the term 'Antilles' was derived. What would be needed for most, if not all, of the islands in the Caribbean Sea, Greater and Lesser Antilles, to make up one country as the islands of the Malay Archipelago make up...

Would it have been possible for the Tawantinsuyo, led by its monarch the Inca, to have invented this variation of the potato before the Spanish came along? And would there be any significant changes due to an earlier introduction of it to Europe?

That was Saigon, I believe.

Tanks weren't the automatic trump card in WW2, especially in the Pacific War. Japan could have pursued a better infantry rifle and submachine guns, as well as better artillery, which the British were able to do in addition to the Royal Navy. Besides that if Japan had been more roughly handled...

At the outbreak of the Great War, the Imperial Japanese Army was looking forward to a way to prove itself because they felt they had lost prestige during the Russo-Japanese War as opposed to the Navy. Japan seized Germany's holdings in Micronesia and captured Tsingtao from German and...

A stretch, but not necessarily impossible. Perhaps some settlement by Makassar fishermen in the northeastern portion of Western Australia, likely the same area where dingos were introduced. Gradual building trade with the interior leads to a need to transport more cargo through the Outback and...

Perhaps camels instead? An earlier contact by Muslim traders with the indigenous peoples of Australia could lead to their introduction and adoption.